Thread: Default Variant with Negative Inventory Problem

So I have a product with 3 variants. The default variant happens to have a negative inventory (-1) and when this occurs the product details page no longer displays any data. I have it set to use productvariantsindropdown.xml.config.

I've debugged this a bit and I've found the source, or what I believe is the source, of the problem. When the default variant has a negative inventory the product is no longer returned in the result set for the

exec dbo.aspdnsf_ProductInfo @ProductID, @CustomerLevelID, 1, 0, @affiliateID

query which is at the top of all the xmlpackages. Is this happening because I haven't changed a configuration variable or is this a bug?

If you have the HideProductsWithLessThanThisInventoryLevel AppConfig set to a value, then we don't return the product if the default variant is less than that threshold. We do that because default variant info is used on non-product pages (entity pages, search results, etc) and we don't want to display one piece of info on those pages then have the customer click the link and find something different.

ok, I have the HideProductsWithLessThanThisInventoryLevel appconfig value set to "0" which should disable this feature right?

That depends on your version. Try setting it to -1, that was the 'off' setting for a few releases.